Ute Indian Arts and Culture
Subtitle: From Prehistory to the New Millennium
By: edited by William Wroth.
Contributors: Wroth, William, 1938-.; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.; Autry Museum of Western Heritage.; Anasazi Heritage Center (U.S.); Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Published: Jan 1, 2000
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780916537111
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Ute Indians; Ute Indians -- History; Ute mythology; Ute art; Ute Indians -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Mountain, Family, Spirit: Arts and Culture of the Ute Indians
Description: The Ute tribes whose arts and culture are the focus of this handsome book are mountain people centered in Colorado with territory extending into New Mexico and Utah. The essays collected here are contributed by Ute cultural leaders and by other scholars. They reveal the richness of Ute material culture, heretofore almost unknown, in groundbreaking studies of Ute prehistory, history, world view, culture, and art. The book is illustrated with color photographs of 139 historic artifacts and over 40 contemporary works, as well as numerous historic photographs of Ute life.

Ute Indian Arts & Culture accompanies an exhibition that is the culmination of a seven-year project that included an inventory of approximately 2,000 objects of Ute origin or attribution found in more than twenty museums around the United States. The project goal is to make Ute Indian history and culture better known to the public at large and to take a first step toward identifying Ute art forms, which have not previously been clearly distinguished in the literature or in museum collections. Another goal has been to make available to a younger generation of Utes visual and written information about their heritage.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition "Mountain, family, spirit : arts and culture of the Ute Indians", held at the Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, July 21-December 31, 2000; Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colo., April 1-September 30, 2001; Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, Cal., October 30, 2001-January 27, 2002; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, spring-summer 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction and Acknowledgments / William Wroth
pagenum: 3; title: Ute Creation Story / Told by Alden B. Naranjo and Monica Lujan
pagenum: 7; title: Traditions and History of the Caputa and Muache Bands and the Southern Ute People Today / Alden B. Naranjo
pagenum: 9; title: Ute Leaders of the Past / Terry G. Knight, Sr.
pagenum: 21; title: Traditional Cosmology. Ecology and Language of the Ute Indians / James A. Goss
pagenum: 27; title: Ute Civilization in Prehistory and the Spanish Colonial Period / William Wroth
pagenum: 53; title: The Ute Indians in Southern Colorado since 1850 / Richard N. Ellis
pagenum: 73; title: Great Basin Affiliations of the Ute Peoples of Colorado / Catherine S. Fowler
pagenum: 89; title: CATALOG SECTION 1 : HISTORIC
pagenum: 107; title: An Artistic Style Uniquely Their Own: Basketry, Parfleches and Beaded Clothing of the Ute People / Craig D. Bates
pagenum: 143; title: CATALOG SECTION 2 : HISTORIC
pagenum: 179; title: Contemporary Ute Crafts: Revival and Innovation / Cathy L. Wright
pagenum: 215; title: CATALOG SECTION 3 : CONTEMPORARY
pagenum: 227; title: Contributions
pagenum: 243; title: Index
pagenum: 244